Hello everyone, I hope you're doing great his week!
So, here are a couple of updates:
> We have the Ergodox kit, Non-Standard Bottom Row Kit (for Logitech and Corsair users) and Arrows for the the Planck kit rendered.
We are currently talking with the manufacturer in order to add these 3 kits to the drop. I'm trying to implement them to the drop TODAY but I'm not entirely sure I'll be able to do that.
Regarding a couple of questions that got posted recently:
> The Cyrilic Kit will be PBT dye-sub, yes;
> People love to bring this discussion everytime, between PBT and ABS. There is indeed a difference between ABS and PBT plastic. However, the ABS we are using here is absolutely great quality and very solid. Our printing method is guaranteed to last forever. You won't see shining on the keycaps anytime soon, unless you're a very heavy typist and/or don't take good care of you keycaps (i.e. eat french fries and greasy things while typing). I have ABS doubleshot keycaps from the same manufacturer and I use them extensively, every single day. I'm yet to notice shine and wear as I've been using them for almost a year. You don't need to be paranoid and wash your hands every single time before you use the PC or nothing like that, just use the keyboard as a normal person would use and you should be good. I can't make this set on PBT because the manufacturer lacks the technology and color tones to do it.
Again, thank you very much for the patience and support!
MiToLyqu1d, just wanted to say thanks for your being so accessible and addressing people's questions/issues personally (and kindly). You're an awesome dude, dude.
HelixDanHey, hello!
You are correct, since the Cyrilic kit is PBT (not ABS as I initially said) we will have to color match it somehow. There are many options, since PBT has some very close to pure white gray tones and actually, white itself (WAN).
Before production takes place we will figure this out, don't worry. We will select the closest tone possible for the good looking overall white. For now, I'd say WAN.
MiToI suggest make the cyrilic kit have all the alphas, hence people who use cyrillic kit will not have to use white ABS keycaps. They can simply use cyrilic kit, modifiers to complete a keyboard. Such as this GMK IC
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=72869.0
MiToExcellent, thanks for adding in the Ergodox set. For the next round, maybe do a legended version? I understand that the realities of the timing on this drop mean that a kit with legends isn't feasible, but do keep it in mind for the next round. Thanks again for all the design work on this set!
MiToFor the Defuse Numpad set. Would it make more sense to have a black 1u + key? The white one won't match since most boards that will need it will have it between the black Enter and the black -.
So, here are a couple of updates:
> We have the Ergodox kit, Non-Standard Bottom Row Kit (for Logitech and Corsair users) and Arrows for the the Planck kit rendered.
We are currently talking with the manufacturer in order to add these 3 kits to the drop. I'm trying to implement them to the drop TODAY but I'm not entirely sure I'll be able to do that.
Regarding a couple of questions that got posted recently:
> The Cyrilic Kit will be PBT dye-sub, yes;
> People love to bring this discussion everytime, between PBT and ABS. There is indeed a difference between ABS and PBT plastic. However, the ABS we are using here is absolutely great quality and very solid. Our printing method is guaranteed to last forever. You won't see shining on the keycaps anytime soon, unless you're a very heavy typist and/or don't take good care of you keycaps (i.e. eat french fries and greasy things while typing). I have ABS doubleshot keycaps from the same manufacturer and I use them extensively, every single day. I'm yet to notice shine and wear as I've been using them for almost a year. You don't need to be paranoid and wash your hands every single time before you use the PC or nothing like that, just use the keyboard as a normal person would use and you should be good. I can't make this set on PBT because the manufacturer lacks the technology and color tones to do it.
Again, thank you very much for the patience and support!